Black-breasted Puffbird
Notharchus pectoralis (Gray, GR, 1846)
Bucconidae — Puffbirds
Black-breasted Puffbird, Notharchus pectoralis, is a bird of Middle and South America, breeding from Panama to north-west Ecuador. It belongs to the puffbird family and was described by Gray in 1846. It is a forest species of humid lowland rainforest and secondary growth, usually in the canopy and often close to running water. It is more tied to woodland than its nearest relatives and is rarely seen at forest margins. Its nesting burrow is made in an arboreal termitarium, and both adults share incubation.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Bucconidae — Puffbirds
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: Panama to nw Ecuador
